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It may sound surprising, but up to 30% of women begin to snore during their pregnancy. While it often tends to occur in the third trimester, the problem is still common at any stage.

Reasons why pregnancy is making you snore

If you’re pregnant, there are many reasons why you could have started snoring.

1) Swollen nasal passages. During pregnancy, the amount of blood in your body increases, causing your blood vessels to expand. This can lead to swollen nasal passages, forcing you to breathe through your mouth. This can lead to snoring.

2) Weight gain. Weight gained through pregnancy can lead to increased tissue in the neck and throat. This narrows your upper airway, and restricts your ability to breathe freely.

3) Colds and allergies. Congestion from other causes, like a cold or the flu, can also result in snoring. Nasal irritation often increases at night when snoring is most likely to be a problem.

4) Sleep apnoea. Loud snoring can be a symptom of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). Sufferers experience a blockage in their airway that causes them to briefly stop breathing in their sleep. This can happen hundreds of times a night! Look out for these warning signs: gasping/choking noises, loud snoring and daytime sleepiness.

How to treat your snoring

Make sure you’re still making healthy lifestyle choices during your pregnancy. This means avoiding alcohol and tobacco – and trying not to gain more than the recommended amount of weight (you can find more information about that here).

If you suspect you have sleep apnoea, or you’re worried about your snoring, visit your doctor as soon as possible. Loud snoring can lead to high blood pressure, and this can put both you and your pregnancy at risk.

You can treat snoring caused by obstructions of the nasal passages by using a Nasal Spray or Nasal Strips. For more information about finding a snoring solution during pregnancy, click here.

Have you started snoring because of a cold? Don’t worry – there are plenty of solutions to help you breathe easily again.

Many people don’t realize that colds and flu can cause snoring, or make snoring even worse. When your nasal tissue swells during a cold, the airflow through your nose becomes blocked or restricted. This congestion may force you to breathe through your mouth, which can lead to snoring.

So how do I get a good night’s sleep?

1) Elevate your head. Sleeping flat on your back is not a good idea. Use an extra pillow to help drain your sinuses, and reduce congestion.

2) Steer clear of antihistamines that contain sedatives. These relax your upper airways, causing more air resistance in your nose and throat which can lead to snoring. The same applies to alcohol and sleeping pills.

3) Use a humidifier if you can. If you have a humidifier, try and use it while you have a cold. This will help keep the air in your bedroom moist.

4) Have a hot shower before bed. The warm water can help open your nasal pages.

5) Try using Snoreeze Nasal Strips or Snoreeze Nasal Spray, available at Boots. Both products work by opening the airways in your nose to provide snoring relief. The nasal spray contains a unique blend of natural active ingredients, while the nasal strips are both hypoallergenic and latex-free. You could experience up to 8 hours of peaceful, snore-free sleep.

Get healthy faster

Snoring stops you from getting a good night’s sleep. Achieving an uninterrupted 7-9 hours of sleep per night is very important for your health, especially when your immune system is fighting a cold. The act of snoring can also make a sore throat feel worse; the vibrations in the back of your throat can result in a dry, scratchy feeling.

Getting enough sleep means you can get healthy faster. Try to go to bed earlier than usual, and rest when you need to. By looking after yourself, and using a good snoring relief product, you’ll be over your cold in no time at all.

Watch top cyclists, athletes, even basket ball players and you’ll see what looks like a piece of coloured sticking plaster across the bridge of their nose. What is it? How does it help them compete and how can it help you stop snoring?

What you can see is called a nasal strip. It is a bit like a sticking plaster but stiffer and more ‘springy’. Placed sticky-side down across the bridge of your nose – just below where the upper bone part joins the flexible lower part – and the springiness stops your nostrils collapsing when you breathe in.

Nasal strips improve athletic performance by helping breathed-in air flow more easily through your nostrils. Easing the flow of air through your nose not only helps you breathe more efficiently during exercise, it can also help reduce your snoring while you sleep.

Breathing Through Your Nose Can Help Reduce Snoring

During sleep the lining of the throat relaxes and collapses into the airways. Breathed-in air races through these narrowed airways generating the vibrations that are amplified into the sound of snoring.

Snoring can be made worse by forcing more air to be breathed in through the mouth than through the nose. Anything that stops you breathing through your nose and forces you to breathe more through your mouth is likely to make your snoring worse.

Help Yourself Stop Snoring By Breathing Better Through Your Nose

Illness such as a cold, or allergies to such things as pollen, dust or animals can cause the delicate lining of the airways to become inflamed, swollen, and narrowed. Injury such as a broken nose, and physical features such as polyps or a deviated septum, can narrow one or both nostrils restricting how much air can be breathed through the nose.

Your body needs to breathe while you sleep. Air that can’t be breathed through a blocked or congested nose must be made up for by air breathed through the mouth. Mouth breathing during sleep increases the chance of air turbulence at the back of the throat where snoring starts.

Snoreeze Nasal Strips Ease The Congestion That Causes Snoring

Breathing through a congested or partially blocked nose collapses the sides of the nostrils making the congestion worse. Extra support in needed to prevent the side of the nostrils from collapse and keep your nasal airways open.

Like the nasal strips used by athletes, Snoreeze Nasal Strips provide gentle support to the outside of your nostrils preventing them from collapsing when you breathe in. Using a Snoreeze Nasal Strip is easy. Just peel off the backing and place the strip sticky-side down across your nose just below where the bone ends and the flexible cartilage begins.

Make sure the wings of the strip adhere to the skin on each side of your nose. It’s a good idea to make sure that the sides of your nose are clean and dry before using the strip. Once in place, the springiness of the strip gently lifts the sides of your nose outward allowing air to flow in more easily.

Snoreeze Nasal Strips Are Simple And Medication Free

By slightly widening each nostril, the strip helps air to flow in and out of your nose more easily, which means less needs to be breathed through your mouth and throat. In the morning, gently peel off and discard the strip.

Voted ‘Favourite Snoring Support Products’ Winner in Boots’ Vitamin Awards 2017, Snoreeze Nasal Strips are latex and allergen free. Available in discreet flesh coloured tone, nasal strips help to reduce snoring caused by colds, allergies, congestion and catarrh and provide some relief in cases of polyps or a deviated septum.

Snoreeze Nasal Strips might not turn you into a sporting super star, but they might help you solve your nasal congestion, deviated septum or allergy based snoring problem.

What is a Snoreeze Nasal Strip?

Voted Favourite Snoring Support Product in Vitamin Awards 2017!

Watch top cyclists, athletes, even basket ball players and you’ll see what looks like a piece of coloured sticking plaster across the bridge of their nose.What is it? How does it help them compete and how can it help you stop snoring?

What you can see is called a nasal strip.It is a bit like a sticking plaster but stiffer and more ‘springy’.Placed sticky-side down across the bridge of your nose – just below where the upper bone part joins the flexible lower part – and the springiness stops your nostrils collapsing when you breathe in.

Nasal strips improve athletic performance by helping breathed-in air flow more easily through your nostrils.Easing the flow of air through your nose not only helps you breathe more efficiently during exercise, it can also help reduce your snoring while you sleep.

Breathing Through Your Nose Can Help Reduce Snoring

During sleep the lining of the throat relaxes and collapses into the airways.Breathed-in air races through these narrowed airways generating the vibrations that are amplified into the sound of snoring.

Snoring can be made worse by forcing more air to be breathed in through the mouth than through the nose.Anything that stops you breathing through your nose and forces you to breathe more through your mouth is likely to make your snoring worse.

Help Yourself Stop Snoring By Breathing Better Through Your Nose

Illness such as a cold, or allergies to such things as pollen, dust or animals can cause the delicate lining of the airways to become inflamed, swollen, and narrowed. Injury such as a broken nose, and physical features such as polyps or a deviated septum, can narrow one or both nostrils restricting how much air can be breathed through the nose.

Your body needs to breathe while you sleep.Air that can’t be breathed through a blocked or congested nose must be made up for by air breathed through the mouth.Mouth breathing during sleep increases the chance of air turbulence at the back of the throat where snoring starts.

Snoreeze Nasal Strips Ease The Congestion That Causes Snoring

Breathing through a congested or partially blocked nose collapses the sides of the nostrils making the congestion worse.Extra support in needed to prevent the side of the nostrils from collapse and keep your nasal airways open.

Like the nasal strips used by athletes, Snoreeze Nasal Strips provide gentle support to the outside of your nostrils preventing them from collapsing when you breathe in. Using a Snoreeze Nasal Strip is easy.Just peel off the backing and place the strip sticky-side down across your nose just below where the bone ends and the flexible cartilage begins.

Make sure the wings of the strip adhere to the skin on each side of your nose. It’s a good idea to make sure that the sides of your nose are clean and dry before using the strip.Once in place, the springiness of the strip gently lifts the sides of your nose outward allowing air to flow in more easily.

Snoreeze Nasal Strips Are Simple And Medication Free

By slightly widening each nostril, the strip helps air to flow in and out of your nose more easily, which means less needs to be breathed through your mouth and throat.In the morning, gently peel off and discard the strip.

Voted ‘Favourite Snoring Support Products’ Winner in Boots’ Vitamin Awards 2017, Snoreeze Nasal Strips are latex and allergen free. Available in discreet flesh coloured tone, nasal strips help to reduce snoring caused by colds, allergies, congestion and catarrh and provide some relief in cases of polyps or a deviated septum.

Snoreeze Nasal Strips might not turn you into a sporting super star, but they might help you solve your nasal congestion, deviated septum or allergy based snoring problem.

August Bank Holiday weekend marks the end of the British summer. But ‘Indian Summers’ increasingly likely, snorers with hay fever still need help to sleep through the late summer nights.

Hay fever makes your Spring and Summer snoring worse

Spring-season hay fevers are generally caused by an allergy to tree pollen. Summer hay fevers are commonly due to an allergy to grass pollen.

When microscopic pollen particles are breathed in, your immune system identifies them as potentially dangerous. To keep the invaders out, your airways close up and fill with sticky mucous causing flu-like congestion.

Sleeping allergy-suffers struggle to breathe. Trying to force air through narrow, congested airways causes the harsh rasping noise of snoring.

Indian Summers – A new season of allergies to aggravate your snoring

Weed pollens appear later in the year, rather than tree and grass pollens. Ragweed, dock, mug wort, nettle, plantain and others shed their allergy-causing pollen well into late summer.

Climate change means more late season Indian Summers and more weeds thriving and shedding pollen well into the early autumn.

Enjoy a ate summer with a Snoreeze solution to your hay fever snoring

Snoring is a symptom of sleep-disordered breathing caused by collapsed or congested airways and made worse if you suffer late summer hay fever.

Choosing the right treatment to solve your snoring problem means knowing a little about why you snore, how you snore and what makes your snoring worse. Let us help you understand what is going on and how snoring relief aids help you treat the cause of your snoring.

Snoring might seem to you like the problem itself. But really, it is only the most obvious symptom of a much more serious underlying problem. The root cause of snoring is ‘sleep disordered breathing’. The only effective way to stop your snoring is to treat the root cause.

Every-night snoring

Regular snoring can be very loud with more impact on the sleep of your partner than on yours. The main cause of this type of snoring is dehydration and relaxed airways that collapse in on themselves when you sleep. This allows the soft lining of the airways to vibrate causing the rasping sound of snoring.

Allergy, Cold and Blocked Nose Snoring

A blocked nose, cold or allergy and make you snore at certain times of the year. Allergic reactions to dust, pollen, animal material or a virus causes nasal congestion that restricts airflow through the nasal passages. Congestion can cause you to breathe your mouth drying your throat and increasing the vibrations that lead to snoring.

Snoring caused by interrupted breathing whilst sleeping

If you are suffering daytime tiredness or sleepiness during the day, or if your loud and sudden snoring frequently wakes your partner, you might be suffering the sleep related breathing disorder, sleep apnoea. The most common form of sleep apnoea, obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), is caused when lack of muscle tone in the upper airway allows it to collapse, or when the soft palate at the back of the throat partially or fully closes the airway. If you experience any of these symptoms your doctor will be able to talk to you about the available treatments.

Seasonal, occasional or now-and-again snoring

Some snoring is difficult to label or tie down to a particular time or cause. It might be you only snore when you have got a cold or had too good a night out, sleep in a strange bed or place. There might be a number of factors causing your snoring, but they are probably all made worse by nasal congestion and dryness in your throat.

Embarrassing and Away-From-Home Snoring

Snoring away from home, particularly among strangers and new acquaintances can be embarrassing. We offer compact, dry products ideal for travellers and easily carried in hand luggage.

Snoreeze snoring relief aids offer a complete range of effective products to help you stop snoring and tailored to the way you snore and the way you live.

How many times have you thought that? Blowing your nose is like trying to force your way through heavy traffic by driving closer to the car in front. It just makes congestion worse.

That is because the amount of catarrh in your nose, is only half of the congestion problem.

Nasal congestion causes snoring – Snoring worsens nasal congestion

It is a vicious circle. Snoring is the sound of your body struggling to force air through too narrow airways. Your narrowed airways collapse inwards with a loud rasping snore and become dry, sore and swollen. Your body tries to protect the dry and inflamed membranes by over-producing the thick, sticky substance you recognise as catarrh.

Heavy catarrh plus narrowed airways make congestion. A cold, hay fever or other allergy will make that congestion worse and make you snore even more.

Opening your airways eases nasal congestion and relieve snoring

Snoreeze natural ingredients are formulated to ease congestion, relieve the discomfort of dry soreness by helping you breathe freely and easily through open airways.

We've all been there. You've felt fine all day, but as soon as your head hits the pillow...BAM! Your nose has transformed into a dripping tap and even breathing is a struggle.

Check out our 7 top tips for falling (and staying!) asleep when you've got a cold.

1. Go head over heels

There's nothing worse than struggling to drift off because you feel all bunged up. Raising the level of your head while you sleep can really help to solve this problem by draining your sinuses. Adding a few more pillows under your head may seem like a good idea, but this can force your neck to be at an uncomfortable angle, causing pain the following day. Instead, try putting a few large books underneath your mattress. This should raise your body from the waist up, rather than just raising your neck.

2. Check your meds

You’ll probably need some sort of decongestant or flu medication before bed. But beware; many of these kinds of medications contain caffeine or other stimulants. That’s great during the day when you’re feeling run down and nee a pick-me-up, but taking them too close to bedtime can really disrupt your sleep. Try to avoid any caffeinated drinks or medications after 3 or 4pm and opt for a special night-time cold and flu medication that will make you drowsy.

3. Spray away

It's natural for most of us to breathe through our noses while we sleep, but this can be almost impossible if you're full of cold. Nasal sprays are a great way to decongest your nasal passages when you’re all bunged up, helping you to breathe more easily throughout the night. Many of these sprays contain stimulants, so many end up having a negative impact on your sleep. Snoreeze Nasal Spray is made from natural ingredients. So, while it still decongests your nasal passages effectively, it won’t keep you awake at night.

4. Get steamy

Repeatedly blowing your nose can irritate the skin on your face and leave you with a headache. Having a hot shower or bath can help to clear your sinuses before bed. Placing a bowl of water on the radiator overnight can help to keep the room humid, stopping your throat from drying out and hopefully easing your tickly cough.

5. Start stripping

We mean nasal strips, of course! These little beauties work wonders when you’re struggling to breathe through your nose. You apply one to the top of your nose and it works by holding your nostrils open to help the air get through. Snoreeze Nasal Strips are hypoallergenic, latex free, and come in two different sizes. They’re great because you can safely use them in combination with nasal sprays or decongestant medications.

6. Optimise your sleep space

It’s difficult to sleep if your room is the wrong temperature, or if you have thin curtains letting outside light in. Try and create a space that is perfect for sleep. Get rid of all sources of light. The darker your room is, the better. Banish all gadgets, making sure to not look at any devices like smartphones or tablets just before bed as the blue light they emit has been proven to disrupt sleep.

7. Roll over

Sleeping on your back can also increase your chances of snoring; something many people find themselves doing when suffering from a cold. Try sleeping on your side instead. If you're a natural back-sleeper, prop yourself up with a few pillows to make sure you don't roll back during the night. (You might want to put a tissue or hand towel under your face to catch any mucus throughout the night...YUM!)

As freezing temperatures are forecast to continue into the weekend, the UK is wrapping-up to stay warm in the run up to Christmas. For many of us, we’ve already received our first surprise gift of the festive season… a cold!

But what does a cold have to do with snoring?

Well, a lot more than you may think. A typical symptom of the common cold is a nasal congestion. This can cause obstruction of the nasal passages, forcing you to breathe through your mouth which can lead to snoring.

Nasal irritation often increases during the night which can further increase the impact that a blocked nose can have on snoring.

What can I do?

If you frequently suffer from nasal congestion because of a cold or flu, try to eat a healthy, balanced diet and drink plenty of fluids to boost your immune system.

The cold virus is contagious and can be passed-on by another person if you come into an object they have touched. Washing your hands frequently can help to mimiize your risks of contracting a cold from this.

The cold virus can enter your body through you nose and eyes, so try to avoid frequently touching them with your hands.

This video by NHS Choices provides some useful information on how to prevent contracting a virus.

For those of you who are unlucky enough to catch a cold, try using Snoreeze Nasal Spray or Snoreeze Nasal Strips to relieve nasal congestion.

Snoreeze Nasal Spray – It’s unique blend of natural active ingredients coats the nasal passages and opens the airways to provide effective snoring relief for up to 8 hours. Available in a 10ml size, each bottle provides 25 applications.

Snoreeze Nasal Strips – Their flexible bands open the airways and improve airflow to provide effective snoring relief for up to 8 hours. Available in two sizes, Small/Medium and Large, each pack provides 20 applications.